Two Simi Valley City Council members have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging violations of state and federal regulations against Torrance-based political consultant Patrick Furey, who orchestrated the successful mayoral campaign of his father, Councilman Pat Furey.

It’s the second lawsuit filed against Furey stemming from his involvement in the 2012 municipal election in Simi Valley.

The state Fair Political Practices Commission in recent months also has twice censured Furey, a member of the Torrance Traffic Commission.

Pat Furey, who won a three-way race for mayor against two City Council colleagues, will be sworn in Tuesday. Furey, a councilman for six years, has praised his son’s efforts on his campaign website.

“Patrick developed our entire election strategy — and he created all of our print pieces, which can only be described as worthy of an award,” wrote the mayor-elect, a retired county counsel. “It was a wonderful way to educate the community as to who I am and what I want to do as mayor.”

The so-called P.T.A. Voter Guide made it appear as if the respected PTA organization was behind the mailer, when it actually had nothing to do with it. The PTA does not endorse political candidates.

The FPPC handed down the penalty because the mailer failed to adequately identify who was responsible for producing it.

Now Patrick Furey is battling two legal actions filed against him for political activity with similar overtones in Simi Valley.

Councilmen Steven Sojka and Glen Bacerra allege Liberty Campaign Solutions, Patrick Furey’s company, produced the robocall that maligned Sojka as he sought re-election to the Simi Valley City Council, according to the lawsuit filed last month in Ventura County Superior Court.

The robocalls, which connected to at least 13,750 homes in the community, allegedly violated federal law and the state’s Public Utilities Code that require the entity initiating the call to properly identify itself.

The calls were “ordered by an otherwise anonymous group calling itself “The Coalition of $99 or Less Donors” and the caller identification number was registered to a “fictitious group” called the Simi Valley Political Ad Council,” according to the lawsuit.

The goal of the legal action, which also lists as plaintiffs several other Simi Valley residents who received the robocalls, is to find out who precisely was behind them, said attorney Mitch Green, who filed the lawsuit.

“They feel Simi Valley politics deserve better,” said Green, a former Simi Valley city attorney. “There’s no room for dirty, underhanded politics. If your political conduct is such that you are not proud to put your name to it, you shouldn’t be doing it.”

The suit seeks a minimum of $6,875,000, or $500 for every robocall. That penalty can be tripled if a court finds the defendants willfully or knowingly violated federal law.

But Green said the case isn’t about money and that the primary goal remains finding out who was behind the robocalls.

It’s the second lawsuit Green has filed against Patrick Furey over the robocalls.

The first, which also seeks to identify those behind them, was filed on behalf of a Simi Valley businessman who alleges the robocalls defamed him. He is seeking $980,000 in damages.

Furey’s lawyers have stymied the identification efforts so far. Green said the second lawsuit is designed to be immune from that sort of legal strategy.

Patrick Furey declined to comment, but Stewart J. Neuville, the attorney representing him, described the second lawsuit as “frivolous” in a letter to Green and suggested it might be “prudent” to consider dismissing the case. Pat Furey called the lawsuit “groundless.”

Nick Green is the longtime soccer columnist for the Southern California Newspaper Group and covers Torrance, Lomita and the craft beer industry for the Daily Breeze. He also blogs about soccer at www.insidesocal.com/soccer, the local craft beer scene at www.insidesocal.com/beer and the South Bay at blogs.dailybreeze.com/southbay/. The native of England lives in Old Torrance with his wife and two cats.

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